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Meditations in Nature

Gather in community for mindfulness-based nature connection practices.

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Nature as Oracle Practices

Experiment relating with nature as oracular teacher.

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Upcoming Workshops

Practice connecting with the sacred elements of the earth in community.

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Nature as Oracle Practices

Malidoma Patrice Somé writes that in ceremony we hope to “transcend the stress placed on the body and the mind by the rapid motion of everyday life.”

These resources for creating individual divination ceremonies provide a sacred space for personal reflection, intention-setting, and healing.

Cultivate a self-paced apprenticeship with nature, hone your ecological awareness, and experience belonging as you step into knowing your truest self.

Explore nature as oracle resources

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Upcoming Workshops

Francis Weller writes that practicing in community "sutures the tears in the soul that occur in the daily rounds of living.”

Group workshops offer a real-time container to explore and experiment connecting with nature, community, and your own ecological self.

Upcoming workshops

About

I'm Ash Lounsbury (she/her). An ecopsychologist and enrolled citizen of the Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nation, I am currently settled on the mountainous, unceded land of Tsalaguwetiyi (Eastern Band Cherokee), or what is often referred to as Asheville, North Carolina, within the watershed of the Tah-kee-os-tee, or French Broad River.

I hold an M.A. in Ecopsychology from Naropa University and have earned Level 1 and 2 certificates in ecotherapy from the Earthbody Institute. With over a decade of meditation experience, I have had the honor to support Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield's online meditation community members. I am currently pursuing certification in dharma teacher training through Asheville Insight Meditation.

Over the past few years, I have been reclaiming and remembering my belonging to the natural world, a journey that began as a way to navigate severe depression. Now, I bring these practices into my work, offering them to the community as pathways to reconnect with the earth.

My hope is to provide accessible, ecopsychologically informed experiences that foster insight, healing, and an ever-deepening relationship with nature.

I sometimes write about myth, ecohealing, and birds. Check out my writing here.

What people are saying

Ash has a unique way of creating a space that feels safe enough to open to new ways of thinking and being. Her wisdom is practical yet still mystical. As a teacher and facilitator myself, I was inspired.
- Miranda M.

Practical magic at play! Definitely going to take this inspiration to divine more with birds.
- Mary Plantwalker

Learning how the birds can offer information, clarity, reassurance, knowing they are kin and are so eager to relate…I’ve not experienced birds in the same way since.
- Vanessa T.

[The workshop] was lovely, calming, and deeply connected me to my intuition and the world around me in that moment.
- Meghan G.

I enjoyed the meditation and centering. Examining the relationship I have with bird song was quite interesting and I got a lot out of it.
- Ellen

[I enjoyed] the ease, gentleness, and depth. I feel a more open connection [that] could happen anywhere.
- Krista Simone

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